Dan McKinnon
“Be aware that a halo has to fall only a few inches to be a noose.”
Month: February 2009
Mary Stewart
“I reached for sleep and drew it round me like a blanket muffling pain and thought together in the merciful dark.”
Matthias
“Sometimes it seems like God is difficult to find and impossibly far away. We get so caught up in our small daily duties and irritations …
John W. Gardner
“History never looks like history when you are living through it.”
Sharon Salzberg
“If we fall, we don’t need self-recrimination or blame or anger – we need a reawakening of our intention and a willingness to recommit, to …
Jef Mallett
“Writing well mean never having to say, ‘I guess you had to be there.'”
Marilyn Manson
“Times have not become more violent. They have just become more televised.”
Jean Cocteau
“Art is science made clear.”
Yogi Berra
“Baseball is 90% mental, the other half is physical.”
Luisa Sigea
“Blaze with the fire that is never extinguished.”
Jilly Cooper
“The male is a domestic animal which, if treated with firmness, can be trained to do most things.”
Steve Jobs
“It’s better to be a pirate than to join the Navy.”
Jean Giraudoux
“Only the mediocre are always at their best.”
Marcus Aurelius Antoninus
“Never let the future disturb you. You will meet it, if you have to, with the same weapons of reason which today arm you against …
Dag Hammarskjold
“Life only demands from you the strength you possess. Only one feat is possible – not to have run away.”
Pam Davis
“Lies are like children: they’re hard work, but it’s worth it because the future depends on them.”
J. R. R. Tolkien
“I don’t know half of you half as well as I should like; and I like less than half of you half as well as …
George Wald
“A physicist is an atom’s way of knowing about atoms.”
Jane Wyman
“The opportunity for brotherhood presents itself every time you meet a human being.”
Dwight D. Eisenhower
“Don’t join the book burners. Don’t think you’re going to conceal faults by concealing evidence that they ever existed. Don’t be afraid to go in …
Napoleon Bonaparte
“Victory belongs to the most persevering.”
George Carlin
“I think it’s the duty of the comedian to find out where the line is drawn and cross it deliberately.”
Henry Kissinger
“The absence of alternatives clears the mind marvelously.”
Niels Bohr
“An expert is a person who has made all the mistakes that can be made in a very narrow field.”
Jackie Mason
“I have enough money to last me the rest of my life, unless I buy something.”
H. R. Schaffer
“There is?nothing to suggest that mothering cannot be shared by several people.”
Trey Parker and Matt Stone
“I just realized that there’s going to be a lot of painful times in life, so I better learn to deal with it the right …
Bell Hooks
“The moment we choose to love we begin to move towards freedom…”
Richard M. Nixon
“Always remember others may hate you but those who hate you don’t win unless you hate them. And then you destroy yourself.”
Kathy Sierra
“In many cases, the more you try to compete, the less competitive you actually are.”
Raymond Chandler
“At least half the mystery novels published violate the law that the solution, once revealed, must seem to be inevitable.”
Leonard Bernstein
“Inspiration is wonderful when it happens, but the writer must develop an approach for the rest of the time… The wait is simply too long.”
Thomas Sowell
“There are only two ways of telling the complete truth–anonymously and posthumously.”
George Washington
“It’s wonderful what we can do if we’re always doing.”
David Lloyd George
“Don’t be afraid to take a big step if one is indicated. You can’t cross a chasm in two small jumps.”
Frank Lloyd Wright
“The physician can bury his mistakes, but the architect can only advise his client to plant vines – so they should go as far as …
Scott Westerfeld
“We don’t always get to choose what we love.”
Stuart’s Law of Retroaction
“It is easier to get forgiveness than permission.”
Hugh White
“When you make a mistake, don’t look back at it long. Take the reason of the thing into your mind and then look forward. Mistakes …
Hesketh Pearson
“Misquotation is, in fact, the pride and privilege of the learned. A widely- read man never quotes accurately, for the rather obvious reason that he …